Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tablets were provided by Merck , Sharp , and Dohme and were kept with the randomisation schedule in the hospital pharmacy . |
| 2 | The pages were crisp and white and were filled with the most marvellous pictures of animals wearing clothes . |
| 3 | For that last half-hour of the day , the dunes became a deeper gold and were scored with the long shadows of palm trees , whose tops were so green that I fancied that if my arm had been long enough I could have plucked a leaf and eaten it as if it had been parsley . |
| 4 | All the children were at that time highly disturbed and were placed with the foster mother on a long term fostering basis . |
| 5 | Right come the morning arrived and and somebody else I ca n't remember who though , and there we were all ready to go and were walking with the press into the massive great shed where they roll the paper and make it a massive place the size of a couple of football pitches , we were just going in the door and somebody said to me they 're no gon na be using their flash guns are they ? |
| 6 | He became assistant to the American J. H. Hammond and they undertook exploration for gold on the Witwatersrand and were associated with the mining ventures of Cecil Rhodes [ q.v. ] |
| 7 | The biggest difference from the corresponding Corporation cars lay in the bogies , which were of Brush 's own design and were reversed with the driving wheels nearest the centre of the car . |
| 8 | By 1983 , Zimbabwe had approached the IMF and was presented with the standard package of reform measures , but by 1984 had reached a parting of the ways with the Fund . |
| 9 | Johnson took enormous pleasure in the honour , and reported it in both his book and , more touchingly , in his correspondence with Mrs Thrale : ‘ I had the honour of attending the Lord Provost of Aberdeen , and was presented with the freedom of the city , not in a gold box but in good Latin . |
| 10 | Peter Brown ( BA Business Studies , 1992 ) won the event with a score of 71 and was presented with the Craiglockhart Cup — a gift from the Alumni Office to the Society on its inception . |
| 11 | Food was placed to sizzle on the barbecue , and was turned with the help of long utensils , and as she worked beside Silas , moving rapidly to turn first one piece and then another , Lucy became conscious of a feeling of quiet satisfaction . |
| 12 | Anselm was now ready for the remaining stages of his promotion : in September he did homage to the king and was invested with the lands of the archbishopric ; on 25 September he was enthroned at Canterbury , and on 4 December 1093 he was consecrated at Canterbury . |
| 13 | A land use and growth map was used in conjunction with the evidence so far gathered , and was compared with the Burgess Model . |
| 14 | He felt powerless in the face of his father , and was cursed with the unshakeable conviction that he was to be punished throughout life for some unspecified crime . |
| 15 | Diderot endured imprisonment in the Chateau of Vincennes , and was threatened with the Bastille . |
| 16 | ‘ I had holidayed several times in France and was toying with the idea of buying a house there , but with no definite plan in mind . |
| 17 | Deputy Head brought child into school and was dealing with the incident in his office when the child 's Class Teacher burst in in a frenzied manner shouting that this was what she did n't want to happen and the child was getting too much attention . |
| 18 | Even Bicker seemed to have lost his wary watchfulness and was grinning with the rest . |
| 19 | He had begun the clearing and draining of the Fairfax land and was helping with the actual physical labour himself . |
| 20 | The church was restored in 1948 and was refurnished with the organ from All Saints Church nearby . |
| 21 | Some time afterwards he chanced to see a hobby-horse being ridden along a nearby road , and was struck with the notion of making one for himself . |
| 22 | Ipsarion varied in height between 3700 and 4200ft above sea level and was pinpointed with the ‘ here be dragons ’ accuracy of medieval manuscripts . |
| 23 | While their challenge was clearly the most serious to have been presented to President Ceausescu , and was made with the full knowledge of important facts , it was also made by people who have long since left the political scene , mainly having retired , or been retired — prematurely — by Mr Ceausescu . |
| 24 | After retiring from the army , he served as Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of New Zealand from 1962 to 1967 , and was honoured with the title , Lord Ballantrae . |
| 25 | Under the management of Bill Richmond , a fellow-black and ex-pugilist , Tom Molineaux beat Blake of Bristol ( ‘ Tom Tough ’ ) in Margate on 21 August 1810 , and was matched with the champion , Tom Cribb [ q.v. ] , in East Grinstead on 18 December 1810 . |
| 26 | Richard Aitkenhead was head of the Guatemalan Managers ' Association and was connected with the PAN leadership . |
| 27 | Her son Edmund hastily swore loyalty to him , and was rewarded with the lordship of Lothian . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd prefer it in the cup , ’ she retorted drily , and was rewarded with the faintest tremor of Lucenzo 's mobile mouth . |
| 29 | The final decision was taken at the end of October , with victory only a few days away , and was announced with the publication of a letter from Lloyd George to Bonar Law , a letter actually drafted by Law as a summary of their agreement . |
| 30 | After two weeks she became jaundiced and was referred with the diagnosis of choledocholithiasis . |